Monthly Archives: October 2015

What qualities make a house satisfying, comfortable, and even rewarding to live in? Surprise! We find the finest answer in a book written 2,030 years ago: De Architectura, by the Roman architect Vitruvius.
"The ideal building has three elements," Vitruvius wrote. The first English translation, written in the 17th century, rendered these as "firmness, commodity, and...